DECORATED: Check out these holiday home tours
If balancing on wobbly ladders to hang holiday decorations isn’t your thing, look no further. These six places will fill your need for lights and tinsel. From house museums to hotel lobbies, these attractions are decorated with ornaments, garland, glitter and anything else that sparkles and shines. Molly Brown House. 1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver. Through Jan. 1: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. TuesdaysSaturdays; noon-3:30 p.m. Sundays. Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day. Cost: $11 adults, $9 seniors, $9 military, teachers, college students (with ID), $5 children. 303-8324092, mollybrown.org
Starting Tuesday the Molly Brown house museum will be dressed up for the holidays with decorations from the late 1800s. There will be two Christmas trees, one on each floor, adorned with baby’s breath garland, Victorian ornaments and (unlit) candles). Period winter fashions such as accessories, hats, coats and shoes will also be on display. Museum tour tickets are available in the Carriage House Visitor’s Center. Reservations required for groups of 10 or more. Decorations will be up until Jan. 7.
Molly Brown, who lived in Denver in the late 1800s, was a Titanic survivor and is known for threatening to throw the crewmen overboard if they didn’t return to the ship to save more people. Brown Palace. 321 17th St., Denver. Go look whenever
you want. The hotel is open 24/7/365. If you want to go in at 3 a.m. and look around you are more than welcome to. Free, and no tour guide you have to pretend to listen to. 303-2973111, brownpalace.com/ holidays
The Brown Palace in downtown Denver is home to a grand chandelier that is only up for the holidays. Red-themed lights, trees, oversize ornaments and wreaths also adorn the lobby. Denver Union Station. 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver. Union Station is open 24/7. Free. 303-592-6712, unionstationdenver.com
Denver Union Station is the city’s main transportation hub. After the City and County building, it’s probably the most obvious display of holiday cheer in Denver, decorated inside and out with lights and ornaments. You can revel in the public places on your own around the clock.
Molly Brown Summer House/Avoca Lodge.
2690 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Denver. Through Jan. 1: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m WednesdaysFridays; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays; 1-5 p.m. Sundays. $10 per person. 720-2538349, history.denverlibrary.org/avoca-lodgemolly-brown-summerhome
The Molly Brown Summer House in southwest Denver, near Lakewood, is all gussied up for the holidays, but to take a peek, you’ll need a reservation. The home served as a summer home for philanthropist and activist Molly Brown and her husband James Brown. It was built in 1897. Byers-Evans House Museum. 1310 Bannock St., Denver. Through Jan. 1: 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 Mondays-Saturdays; 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 Sundays. $6 per adult, $5 for students and seniors. Appointments immediately from the road. It’s decorated with more than 1 million lights across 400 acres of the resort, a gigantic 12-by-13foot gingerbread replica of Pauline Memorial Chapel, two story wreath and roughly eight Christmas trees. Santa himself makes an appearance every Saturday through Dec. 24 at Seven Falls located on the property. They also offer holiday packages which includes accommodations for one night, dinner show tickets for each person on the package to The Classic Broadmoor Holiday dinner show and suites available at 25 percent off of published rates.